I have a convertible and I'm prone to leaving the top down. But if I think the car will be laid up for a month or so I will raise the top, the latches are about 4 or 5 inches away from locking. After about a week the weight of the raised top has slowly restretched the material and I can easily latch the top. Also, I have left the raised top in the midday sun and the top will slowly re stretch too. My top has lasted me almost 25 years.....your mileage may vary.
Steve

Exquisite, is an understatement! My head should arrive on your doorstep in 3/4 days

jeromeSolberg Very interesting read, great synopsis. Thanks for posting.

"Glass bricks" ??

I'm 16.8 miles from Washougal WA, I'm in Vancouver, WA. Mom o if you need another set of eyes on the car PM me. Or, anybody else that is interested I can get pictures if the owner can be contacted. Hope this helps, gotta keep the Packard's on the road.

Along the lines of the bicycle registration, growing up in Pasadena, CA., my brother and I were meeting in the early morning to pickup our load of newspapers to deliver, all loaded up and ready to go when a cop car stopped us and checked the bikes back frame where the city required us to post our bicycle license plate......"no license plate..eh" and the cop wrote us both a ticket for illegally operating an unlicensed bicycle.

kevinpackard.........There shouldn't be any problem of offering 5K for the car. If you don't make the offer and you buy the car you will always wonder "what if" I had offered 5K. All the owner can say is no. Go for it see what happens.
Regards

Hmmmmmmmm, micro cracks, too small to see so the tanks need to be replaced too because the tanks have a micro virus. Maybe. When my 1951 Packard sprung a leak the shop replaced the core and fixed a large dent in the top tank.....that was 3 years ago and the tanks are now almost 70 years old. In my life time I'm guessing that I've had 15 to 20 radiators fixed with out "micro cracks" ever being mentioned or one of the radiators leaking from a tank rupture/leaking micro crack. I think the guy who told you that meant that he uses crack and you thought he said micro crack???

"Now, before anybody slams me for supplier disloyalty, etc."

Not at all, I understand that shopping for the best price is my responsibility, but.... who would expect a price comparison of a vacuum advance for $125.00 from MM and $60.00 at Hagens to be 100% more expensive at MM? I do operate using buyer loyalty but I feel like just I got a stick in the eye.......Sooooo, I guess it's back to Caveat emptor, check, check and verify.


PS: I also got an answer 2 weeks ago from Kanter pricing the same VAC ADV and was told $185.00 was the full cost.

RE: the above post.

Sales (hagensautoparts.com)
10:03 AM (13 minutes ago)
to me

"Hello Steve,
At this time I am out of the Delco and Autolite advance. We can get yours rebuilt for the $ 60.00 or if I had it in
hand I might be able to come up with an exchange."

thank you

Brandon



I just quired the above supplier Hagens autoparts with a question on Vacuum advances and attached is his immediate reply. I hope this information can save you $ and get newly rebuilt fresh products too.